It was one of many similar runs held across the state. Special Olympics Michigan serves 23,000 children and adults with intellectual disabilities in Michigan at no cost to the athletes and their families. Special Olympics Runner Excels at Top Road Races Andy Bryant, who won gold in the 3,000 meters at the Special Olympics USA Games, is a regular at top road races, including the Boston Marathon.

A young guy's only option to erase a really bad debt is to rig the Special Olympics … Straughn's legs were ravaged by cerebral palsy and he races on crutches, as he is doing here in the Special Olympics World Games. Special Olympics runner Andrew Peterson, right, with his father, Craig, typically focuses on training for marathons, running 75 to 100 miles a week. “I don’t ever want your pity, rather I need your respect.

Special Olympics Michigan. With Johnny Knoxville, Katherine Heigl, Brian Cox, Jed Rees. And though he was born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, he doesn’t let it stop him. The Special Olympics are not offensive and are pretty important to millions of people around the world since 1968.

Now, Andrew is a well-known Special Olympics athlete. The 25-year-old is the Special Olympics athlete from Nebraska selected to help carry the torch in the Law Enforcement Torch Run Final Leg. This program develops pre-sports skills through a variety of fun activities designed for the young athlete. Loretta Claiborne is a truly amazing woman, a world-class runner, Special Olympics athlete & gifted motivational speaker who has touched & inspired many. 31K likes. The runners weren’t running for personal glory — instead, they ran in the Law Enforcement Torch Run to draw awareness to Special Olympics. He has been the only runner on crutches in … Author: Special Olympics Hawai’i also provides our Young Athletes curriculum to Special Education teachers. Directed by Barry W. Blaustein. Special Olympics Hawai’i offers an inclusionary program for 2-7 year old special education and regular education children called Young Athletes. One of his Special Olympics coaches, Gigi Rue, said Roundtree has been a Special Olympics athlete for nearly 20 years. He started with track …